I agree that Nokia is strong in Europe, but owning a shop that repairs all brands of cell phones, Nokia, Pantech and iphone are 3 brands we get in for repair the most. The least HTC, Blackberry and Sanyo..

They are still #2 in sales world wide so you are grossly uninformed. Nokia phones sold in Europe are very advanced but they don't make cdma phones, the dominant system in the US so their sales are limited here..

Nokia's #2 in sales only by cheap disposable handsets- in other words, trash markets. They're the new Everex.

Their marketshare of smartphones is sliding into oblivion- it has shrunk faster than Windows Mobile and Palm (both dead OS's.) . All thoughout the world Nokia's smartphone OS share is shrinking about as fast as possible.

bluecoyote said:Nokia's #2 in sales only by cheap disposable handsets- in other words, trash markets. They're the new Everex.

Their marketshare of smartphones is sliding into oblivion- it has shrunk faster than Windows Mobile and Palm (both dead OS's.) . All thoughout the world Nokia's smartphone OS share is shrinking about as fast as possible.

Their platforms are all abysmal failures critically and commercially.

Their profitability is plunging as well.

FAIL FAIL FAIL

The Symbian OS is the 2nd most developed for operating system behind Microsoft Windows XP/7. And is the leading Smartphone OS in the world.

Ok.. so 1 company controls more of the market than the next 4 competitors and they are no longer relevant? Yes, they used to control 60%+ but what happened in 2008-2009?-1 RIM did something, because they went from 10% to almost 20% (aka, they got most of the market share Nokia "lost")

-Apple was released in several new markets, which allowed them to "gain" 5% of the market.

-Android, a totally new, user friendly version of Linux-base...(continues)